Tag: Jazz Funk

Mark de Clive-Lowe

Listen Here: Mark de Clive-Lowe, Live Remix Suite — We See You. We Are Here.

For the latest addition to BeatCaffeine’s Listen Here series, we feature an incredible live remix suite by Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe that he produced for the La Ceiba Festival. The multi-media suite, which features spiritual jazz and pulsating broken-beat grooves with powerful visual imagery and spoken words of James Baldwin, activist Tamika D Mallory and real-time chants of Black Lives Matter is called “Sawubona: We see you. We are here.”

Roy Ayers — Jazz Is Dead

Soul-Jazz legend Roy Ayers releases incredible new album on Jazz Is Dead

Soul-jazz legend Roy Ayers, who made his mark in the seventies and early eighties with classic recordings like He’s Coming, Ubiquity, Red Black & Green, Vibrations, Everybody Loves The Sunshine, and so many others, has teamed up with Los Angeles based producers/multi-instrumentalists Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of also Tribe Called Quest) to release a brand new album on the newly formed Jazz Is Dead label.

Gary Bartz & Maisha

Jazz great Gary Bartz teams up with London’s Maisha on new Night Dreamer recording

Legendary saxophonist Gary Bartz has been at the forefront of some of the greatest recordings over the past six decades, performing alongside Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Jackie McLean and numerous others, while also putting out many groundbreaking records with his own bands, including the spiritual jazz ensemble NTU Troop, and collaborating with the Mizell Brothers on the jazz-funk anthem “Music Is My Sanctuary”. On his latest recording, the jazz great teams up with leading UK group Maisha on a a special straight-to-disc session for the London-based label, Night Dreamer.